Once you’ve decided to coat a floor, you’ve got one fun decision left: flake or metallic? They’re built on the same bones — a diamond-ground slab, a strong base coat, a clear protective topcoat — but they look and live very differently.
Flake systems broadcast colored vinyl chips into the base coat, then lock them under a clear topcoat. The result is a textured, speckled finish that:
It’s the right call for garages, basements, laundry rooms, and any working shop floor.
Metallic systems swirl metallic pigments through the epoxy, creating deep, marbled, three-dimensional effects. No two metallic floors are ever the same — the pigment moves as it cures, so the floor is genuinely one of a kind. They’re stunning in showrooms, offices, man caves, and anywhere the floor is part of the look.
Still torn? Send us a photo of your space and we’ll tell you what we’d do with it — get a free estimate.
It’s the first question everyone asks about a coated garage floor: how long will it actually last? The honest answer is that it depends almost entirely on how it was installed. A properly prepped and sealed floor can look great for well over a decade. A rushed one can peel in its first winter.
Concrete has to be mechanically ground — we diamond-grind every floor — so the coating can bite into the surface. Paint-on kits that skip grinding are the number one reason people think “epoxy peels.” It’s not the epoxy; it’s the prep.
A real floor system is built in layers: a base coat, a full flake broadcast, and a clear topcoat. We finish with a polyaspartic topcoat, which is UV-stable (it won’t yellow in sunlight) and cures fast — most floors are walk-ready the next day.
Michigan garages take real abuse: road salt, snowmelt, hot tires in July. A properly built coating shrugs all of that off — that’s the point of it. Oil and salt wipe up instead of soaking in.
Thinking about it for your garage, basement, or shop? Browse our flake colors, then get a free estimate — we’ll look at your slab and give you a straight answer on what it needs.